HERE IS MY SONG, "BROKEN M".  IT HAS BEEN NAMED AS
ONE OF THE TOP TEN WESTERN SONGS OF 2005
BY HEARTLAND PUBLIC RADIO.

Broken M

Rodger Maxwell © 2005

Tucked into a corner of the low foothills

Along the caldera’s rim

In a place forgotten and forlorn

Lies a ranch called the Broken M

Lincoln Young, he found the spot

He’d turned left on a whim

Then just a place unknown and unseen

Starts the ranch called the Broken M

Hard scrabble ranching from the start

Each day was hard and grim

But it was his this little spread

This ranch called the Broken M

In town one day he met his Anne

She set his head a’swim

He married her and they were there

On the ranch called the Broken M

There was Davey Joe and Stevie

Sally and little Clem

Rebecca Sue and Judith

On the ranch called the Broken M

Old Lincoln, again alone, he mused

How it used to be back then

It was all that was left today

Of the ranch called the Broken M

It was a good life he said to himself

No regrets at journey’s end

A happy heart and grandchildren

As I leave this old Broken M